High functional diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis driven by genetic drift and human demography.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects one third of the human world population and kills someone every 15 seconds. For more than a century, scientists and clinicians have been distinguishing between the human- and animal-adapted members of the M. tuberculosis complex (MTBC). However, all human-adapted s...

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Main Authors: Ruth Hershberg, Mikhail Lipatov, Peter M Small, Hadar Sheffer, Stefan Niemann, Susanne Homolka, Jared C Roach, Kristin Kremer, Dmitri A Petrov, Marcus W Feldman, Sebastien Gagneux
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/0540b865fd40421e8f083cafb8510ca8
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